Coat-pad.



l. ISAACS.

COAT PAD.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 11, 1914.

1,146,710. Patented July 13, 1915.

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COAT-PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1915.

Application filed July 11, 191i. Serial No. 850,512.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC ISAACS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Coat- Pad, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to clothing and has particular reference to the making of coats.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a pad or lining for a coat of such a nature that it maintains its shape to. fit the person for an indefinite time.

More definitely stated, by practice of this invention I provide an attachment for the haircloth lining or stiffener of a coat, commonly referred to as a coat pad, such attachment being in the nature of one or more strips of non-elastic material such as tape or the like, the same being so stitched or secured to the inner surface of the pad by a means or process of such a nature that the strips of tape or the like will hold the pad in a curved form and thereby the garment will be caused to maintain such form at all times.

In carrying out this'invention in a prac tical embodiment, I apply to the inner surface of the coat pad one or more strips of non-elastic tapes securing the same first at the ends and then causing the pad to assume a curved form, the curve extending substawn tially circumferentially around the vertical axis of the garment or figure, andthen, while in that form, the strip or strips of tape or the like are stitched securely throughout their length to the pad. By reason of the curvature of the pad and the attachment thereto of the strips of tape while in a curved form, the inner surface of therp'ad will be on a shorter arc than the outer surface, and such shorter arc will be maintained by reason of the non-elasticity or stretchability of the tapes.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of theinner side of a coat pad embodying the principles of this invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse secs tional detail showing the manner of applymg the tapes to the pad; and Fig. 3 is a view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, showing the relation of the pad and the tape in the finished article and the effect upon the form of the pad due to the manner of applying the tapes thereto.

As above premised, the coat stiffener or pad 10 may be of any suitable construction embodying haircloth or the like. Adjacent the front or chest portion of the pad are arranged one or more strips of tape 11 or other suitable strong, tough andnon-elastic material. I prefer to arrange these strips, as shown on Fig. 1, on the inner surface of the pad, as radiating from a point 12 just below and a little ahead of the arm pit, the several tapes diverging therefrom as they approach the front edge of the pad.

As shown in Fig. 2, each of the tapes 11 is first secured at its ends, as shown at 18, to points on the inner surface'of the pad which are spaced farther from each other along the surface of the pad than is represented by the distance between the ends of the, tape. lVhile in this form, or after the tape has been applied to the pad, as shown in Fig. 2, the pad is put upon a roller or form and so treated by wetting and pressure as to cause the length of the inner surface of the pad between the points 13 to correspond substantially to the length of the tape, and while in this position or form the tape is securely stitched by one or more.

rows of stitches 14 to the pad throughout the length of the tape.

The form in cross section of the pad after the stitching is completed is indicated substantially in Fig. 3, and this form is maintained by virtue of the non-elasticity of the tapes for an indefinite time irrespective of the amount of wear and tear or wetting to which the coat may be subjected in actual use. The inner and adjacent ends of the several tapes 11 are preferably bound by means of an anchor member 15. This anchor member may be a short strip of tape or other suitable flexible material securely stitched throughout its length, as shown at 16, to the other tapes and the pad.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The herein described coat pad construc tion comprising a stiffener, a narrow strip of flexible non-elastic material arranged transversely of said stlfiener, sald strip" having one end attached adjacent 'the free edge of the stiffener, and stitching extending from said attached end along the strip to its other end, the stitching serving to hold the stifl ener and strip in a curved form, the radius of curvature of the strip being less than that of the stifiener and the, 10 strip serving to resist the tendency of ISAAC ISAAOS.

Witnesses DANIEL VVEIL, I WILLIAM (l RITTENBERG.

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